Death Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“A dead poet is better than one that's alive”

— Aaron Ozee

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

That is the saddest thing about being a writer. We die in ways you cannot fathom just to keep someone alive in our poetry.

— Needa Muy

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

— Mary Caroline Richards

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

— Edward Abbey

For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'

— Joseph Brodsky

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined…

— Samuel R. Delany

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey